At the table
The leaf is edible: hold the wrap from below and take small bites. If it falls apart, eat the filling and leaf together with utensils.
Ask which leaf, sauce and toppings are used. Contains egg and soy; check wheat in the paste and added peanuts, meat or sausage.
Cabbage leaves can replace lettuce. Mixed-grain rice, peanuts, eggplant, meat sauce or sausage belong to other versions.
GET TO KNOW THE DISH
What goes into it?
Explore some key ingredients below. Preparations may use additional seasonings and ingredients.
Cabbage leaves can replace lettuce. Mixed-grain rice, peanuts, eggplant, meat sauce or sausage belong to other versions.
Typical ingredients
Recipes vary by restaurant.
How does it taste?
Savory fermented soybean and egg, fresh herbs, pungent garlic and green chili.
- Chili heat
- Texture
- Soft rice and potato mash inside a crisp, flexible edible leaf.
- How it’s made
- Cook rice and steam or boil potatoes, peel and mash. Scramble eggs in oil and cook with soybean paste thinned with water. Fill cleaned lettuce with rice, potato, egg sauce, scallion, green chili, coriander, cucumber and garlic; fold around the filling.
Cabbage leaves can replace lettuce. Mixed-grain rice, peanuts, eggplant, meat sauce or sausage belong to other versions.
A CONNECTION TO PLACE
Origin & regional roots
Associated with Heilongjiang.
About this regional connection
Heilongjiang: Local culinary association; not a claim of exclusive origin.
Ask if they have it first
请问你们有东北饭包吗？
Do you have this item?
A LITTLE SOMETHING TO READ
Story & history
Dongbei rice leaf wraps
Dongbei fanbao brings rice, potato, soybean sauce and garden greens into a hand-held meal. It is eaten at home and sold at market stalls, including by cooks from northeastern China elsewhere.